I've got a gaming rig that will play all modern games on max settings, running Windows 7 64. I don't have a joystick, so I'd need to get one... can anyone recommend one of the modern joysticks? It's been so long since I've played it that I can't remember if you need one with all the bells and whistles.

A two-button stick would have sufficed for XWA, being that a lot of the key controls were done from the keyboard, but certainly if you have a stick you can map keyboard combinations to buttons on, that would work, as well. I haven't actually purchased a stick in some time, so I'd be in no good position to recommend anything either way.